{"id":192802,"date":"2025-05-13T13:22:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T18:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=192802"},"modified":"2025-05-13T20:18:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T01:18:45","slug":"hughes-named-nwc-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2025\/05\/13\/hughes-named-nwc-player-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Hughes named NWC Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Lincolnview freshman Ila Hughes was named NWC softball Player of the Year in voting done by conference coaches. She’s hitting .552 this season with 10 home runs and 36 RBIs, and has a 13-2 record on the mound with an ERA of 1.11, 150 strikeouts and just 13 walks. Hughes was one of four Lincolnview players named first team All-NWC and altogether, seven Lancers garnered all-conference honors. In addition, head Eric Schwab was named NWC Co-Coach of the Year, after leading the Lancers (21-3) to a second consecutive outright conference title.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crestview had three players named first team All-NWC and a total of five named all-conference.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Lincolnview freshman Ila Hughes has been named NWC Player of the Year. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

First Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ila Hughes Lincolnview Fr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lainey Spear Lincolnview Jr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Melana Badea Lima Central Catholic Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carolyn Mueller Delphos Jefferson  Jr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashlyn Price Lincolnview Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neveah Ross Crestview Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Violet Dirr Crestview Jr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dakota Thornell Crestview Jr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danielle Cross Bluffton Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire Brinkman Delphos Jefferson So<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emerson Walker Lincolnview Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Second Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emma Skinner Lima Central Catholic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace Brickner Lincolnview Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taylor Nickles Allen East Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaci Gregory Crestview So<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elise Litsey Spencerville  So<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Emma Kunz Delphos Jefferson Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sophia Hurley Lima Central Catholic Jr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aniya Prowant Allen East  Jr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sondra Clum Allen East Jr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allie Miller Lincolnview Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorable Mention<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harper Friesner Allen East Fr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carolina Kill Lima Central Catholic Jr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sylvia Longstreth Lincolnview Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bre Hoffman Columbus Grove So<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allison Post Spencerville Jr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoey Patchet Columbus Grove Fr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teagan Helmig Lima Central Catholic Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ella Miller Allen East Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maddie Miller Allen East So<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courtney VanMeter Lima Central Catholic Jr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chevrolet Johnson Spencerville Jr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Izabela Basinger Delphos Jefferson So<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaylee Mollenkopf Crestview Sr<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Haley Hittle Spencerville<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

VW independent sports Lincolnview freshman Ila Hughes was named NWC softball Player of the Year in voting done by conference coaches. She’s hitting .552 this season with 10 home runs and 36 RBIs, and has a 13-2 record on the mound with an ERA of 1.11, 150 strikeouts and just 13 walks. Hughes was one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-28 12:49:44","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192802"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192816,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192802\/revisions\/192816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}